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New York Notes JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 1. Leroy Miller, an exercise boy in the employ of trainer Tom Heard, was admitted to Mary Immaculate Hospital, Jamaica, for observation after being pawed about the shoulders by a horse Monday. Trainer Fred Clear is confined to Physicians Hospital, Jackson Heights, where re recently underwent a minor operation performed by Dr. Alexander Kaye. Maine Chance Farm has taken second call on jockey Johnny Longdens services for the Belmont Park meeting. Donald Murray, son of Jack Murray, well-known docker and one of Father Bill Daleys proteges, was a visitor at Jamaica. The lad, who spent a year and a half in a German prison camp, is studying journalism at Colby College in Maine, with a view to eventually becoming a turf writer, possibly the second one of his kind who can spell. Equinox returned to the scales after his last race so lame that Dr. J. C. Catlett ordered him placed on the veterinarians list, which will mean a few weeks absence from colors. Hampden, Foxcatcher Farms colt, who won last years Chesapeake and Withers Stakes and who gave promise of being one of the seasons stars until he went wrong in the Belmont Stakes, is back in training at Belmont Park. G. P. "Maje" Odom reports that Contradiction has been shipped from the King Ranch in Texas to Mrs. Plunket Stewarts Farm, The Plains, Va., where he will serve several mares.
